re: #62 Backwoods Sleuth

Just finished reading Demon Copperhead/em> by Barbara Kingsolver.

Yowser, what a hard book to read.
I laughed, I cried, I cringed.
But unlike that wretched fake Hillbilly Elegy author, Kingsolver actually lived here and properly researched the difficulties and joys of Appalachian life.
Everyone in the book, I knew/know a real-life counterpart.
And so many of them died the same way as in the book.
And some of them managed to unentangle themselves and went on to survive and sometimes thrive and help those still struggling.

I have the audiobook. I listened to that while falling asleep at night and heard various pieces of it when waking. I ran it end to end over several nights but it wasn’t until I listened straight through that I got it all, of course. Same treatment for The Passenger, Cormac MaCarthy’s last book, and The Story of Edgar Sawtelle by David Wroblewski. I can recommend both of these books.